private school decision day: Feb 27

[Anonymous]

How are people feeling? What is your plan if your kid doesn't get in anywhere or doesn't get into an appealing or top choice? We only applied to 3 and our plan is the local public. I don't feel stressed about it bc I don't think public would be all that bad - though obviously a top private would be a more rigorous, well-resourced experience for my kid.

[Anonymous]

Not joining an elite private always has the ingredient of FOMO. We were rejected the first time and accepted the second time and then we moved to a much better school a third time. The lesson, it is much better strategy to be flexible and try several times to get the best school for your kid either public or private. Some elite private schools are overpriced, overrated, and parents are jerks as you can read in dcum posts. Others are absolutely perfect. But takes time to find the best match.

[Anonymous]

Not worried. We applied to 3 privates for high school as well, but if DC won’t get in, our local public high school is still an excellent choice and will save us a good $200k-$250K over 4 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not worried. We applied to 3 privates for high school as well, but if DC won’t get in, our local public high school is still an excellent choice and will save us a good $200k-$250K over 4 years.

our local public school is not great - still growing, only been open 2 years (macarthur HS in palisades) so am not thrilled with that option but also think DC would be fine there.

[Anonymous]

I don’t worry about my kid on 2/27, but I do worry about the noise coming from their class, where everyone has applied generally to the same set of schools.

[Anonymous]

We booked a family dinner out that night, hopefully will be celebrating good news!

[Anonymous]

We applied to 4 and our local public isn’t a good option. We are coming from a K-8 that seems to have a good relationship with the schools as they all came to visit so I’m hoping we have a good chance of getting into at least one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How are people feeling? What is your plan if your kid doesn't get in anywhere or doesn't get into an appealing or top choice? We only applied to 3 and our plan is the local public. I don't feel stressed about it bc I don't think public would be all that bad - though obviously a top private would be a more rigorous, well-resourced experience for my kid.

Applied for a few of schools which are all trashed by this site. So not worried. Maybe dodged a few bullets. Who knows?

[Anonymous]

Re someone mentioning they already booked a family dinner. We had K-8 graduates waiting for a decision previous years. Our school’s recommendation was not to plan anything for the decision day beforehand. If you don’t get good news canceling plans would be more dramatic and impact your kid even more negatively. Why to plan anything? If there is good news you can just decide to go to a restaurant then. It is a random Friday so there plenty of places that don’t need a prior reservation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We booked a family dinner out that night, hopefully will be celebrating good news!

This is so weird.

[Anonymous]

We are just ready to finally get some decisions after this monthslong process…!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We booked a family dinner out that night, hopefully will be celebrating good news!

This is so weird.

I would celebrate anyway. Either get in an elite school or save a $20k-$60k a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Re someone mentioning they already booked a family dinner. We had K-8 graduates waiting for a decision previous years. Our school’s recommendation was not to plan anything for the decision day beforehand. If you don’t get good news canceling plans would be more dramatic and impact your kid even more negatively. Why to plan anything? If there is good news you can just decide to go to a restaurant then. It is a random Friday so there plenty of places that don’t need a prior reservation.

+1. I would not plan anything and tell your kid about it, especially for an 8th grader hoping to get into a certain high school. You can always decide to celebrate last minute if it’s good news. I bought my DC a sweatshirt from his first choice, didn’t tell him about it, and gave it to him the day we found out he was accepted. If he hadn’t been, we would have returned it or donated it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not worried. We applied to 3 privates for high school as well, but if DC won’t get in, our local public high school is still an excellento choice and will save us a good $200k-$250K over 4 years.

our local public school is not great - still growing, only been open 2 years (macarthur HS in palisades) so am not thrilled with that option but also think DC would be fine there.

I would give MacArthur High a chance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We booked a family dinner out that night, hopefully will be celebrating good news!

This is so weird.

No it isn’t? We celebrated with school swag and a dinner too. DC remembers it to this day